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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?
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To: JBTFD who wrote (439)2/24/2005 3:26:26 PM
From: zonkie   of 9838
 
The attorney general can name a special counsel to investigate any matter he feels needs investigating. In 1978 the office of independent counsel was established to better and more quickly get to the bottom of such things as Watergate. It had to be voted on in congress and renewed several times since. The last time it came up for a vote (1999) it was voted to quit having them. This was just in time for junior. If it hadn't been voted down I would expect there to be at the very least 4 or 5 independent counsels investigating some of junior's and his henchmen's evil deeds. Well, I don't think he would have served a full 4 years of his first term before he was either forced to resign or impeached.

Special counsel and independent sound much the same but they are as different as night and day. Instead of "special" counsel it would be more aptly named if it was called "partisan" or "cover-up" counsel. At least it would when the person or person's being investigated get to name the counsel.

We'll probably never get to know what we really should know about the Plame affair. I'm not saying the report won't name someone as the person who outed Plame, i'm just saying we won't know any more than they feel they are forced to tell us and that may not be all true.
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